THINKING
BEYOND ENGINEERING
“Everybody
can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college
degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to
serve.... You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics
to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ”
Martin
Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968);
Too often the trend in our society is for people to be
separated from either other, to be cut off from the great mass of humanity. Cars
have taken us off the streets, where we used to greet each other and stop to
chat. Cubicles have taken away a bit of the humanity in working, as have
factories and even computers to some extent. Television has planted us firmly
in our living rooms, instead of out with other people. Even movie theaters,
where many people get together, cut us off from true conversation because we’re
staring at a big screen.
Corporate society has created the tendency towards selfishness
rather than giving, on helping ourselves rather than helping our brothers and
sisters in humanity.
I’m not saying we’re all like that, but it can happen, if
we’re not careful.
So strike back against the
selfishness and greed of our modern world, and help out a fellow human being
today. Not next month, but today.
(IF THIS MAN CAN DO WHY CANT US?????????)
Helping a fellow human being, while it can be inconvenient,
has a few humble advantages:
1. It makes you feel better about yourself;
2.
It connects you with another person, at least
for a moment, if not for life;
3.
It improves the life of another, at least a
little;
4.
It makes the world a better place, one little
step at a time;
5.
And if that kindness is passed on, it can
multiply, and multiply.
So take just a few minutes today, and do a kindness for another person. It can be something small or the start of something big. Ask them to pay it forward. Put a smile on someone’s face.
Don’t know where to start? Here is the HOPE. Come and join
us-give a hand to help.
